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Brown Bread Recipe | Homemade Brown Bread Recipe

Brown bread recipe with step by step pictures. Healthy whole wheat bread recipe made easily with wholesome ingredients.. You can make this brown bread under 2 hours from start to finish unlike my wholewheat bread which needs some extra time.
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Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Resting Time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
Servings: 1 Loaf
Calories: 1793kcal

Equipment

  • 1 Loaf Pan
  • Stand Mixer or Mixing Bowl

Ingredients

  • 2 cups Whole Wheat Flour (240 grams)
  • ½ cup All Purpose flour (60 grams)
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1 Cup Warm Milk (240 ml)
  • 2 tbsp Sugar
  • 2 tsp Yeast
  • 1 large Egg
  • 2 tbsp Olive Oil
  • ¼ cup All Purpose flour (30 grams Extra)

Instructions

  • Grease a 8 ½ x 4 ½ x 2 ¾-inch loaf pan with oil. Set aside.
  • Place wheat flour, plain flour, salt in a mixing bowl or the bowl of the stand mixer. Mix well using a spoon until it is briefly mixed. Set aside.
  • Take warm milk in a bowl, sprinkle over some sugar, yeast and set aside for 5 mins till the yeast blooms.
  • Once the yeast has activated, add egg and olive oil and mix well.
  • Pour this over the flour mixture and place the bowl into the stand mixer and let it knead for 2 mins. After 1 min of kneading, sprinkle the remaining ¼ cup of flour and let it go for another 1 min. So it is a total of 2 min of kneading in stand mixer. Don’t over mix. The dough will be little sticky.
  • Once the dough comes together, remove it to a work surface, sprinkle little extra flour and knead gently for 20 times. You should get a smooth finished dough by that time. Don’t use too much flour.
  • Now cover it with a kitchen towel and leave it for 10 mins.
  • Take your greased loaf pan as a guide. Spread the dough gently like a rectangle and roll it carefully. Pinch the seams together and place the seam side down in the loaf pan. Cover with a tea towel and let it rise in a warm spot until it’s one inch taller than the pan, about 35 mins to 1 hour. I like to rise it inside my oven with lights on.
  • Meanwhile, during the last 10 mins of rising. preheat oven to 375° F (190 degree C).
  • Place the loaf pan gently into the oven and Bake for 30 minutes. After the first 15 minutes, cover the top of the loaf with a foil tent to prevent over-browning.
  • Remove from oven and let it cool in the baking pan for 10 mins, gently invert it over a cooling rack and let it cool for 2 hours.
  • After 2 hours, slice and serve.

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Notes

  • Always measure your ingredients correctly. I like to use a measuring scale for proper measurements.
  • If you are using stand mixer to mix the dough, never over mix.
  • You can make the dough in a regular mixing bowl using your hands.
  • Never over knead the dough else you won’t get smooth finished bread loaf.

Storage Suggestions

  • I like to store this in a bread bag or an air tight container at room temp upto 3 days.
  • You can freeze this bread upto a month.
  • Store in fridge upto a week in an air tight box.

Serving Suggestions

This brown bread can be served fresh sliced with a slather of butter. Bread can be toasted or used to make sandwiches. 

Nutrition

Serving: 1loaf | Calories: 1793kcal | Carbohydrates: 290g | Protein: 65g | Fat: 49g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7g | Monounsaturated Fat: 26g | Trans Fat: 0.02g | Cholesterol: 215mg | Sodium: 2509mg | Potassium: 1637mg | Fiber: 35g | Sugar: 37g | Vitamin A: 687IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 433mg | Iron: 15mg
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